Today: July 5th, 2008

Trying out CakePHP

When I was evaluating PHP web frameworks that I would focus on and use on a regular basis, I didn’t go with CakePHP. Instead, I went with CodeIgniter for reason that I was able make and run a sample app with CodeIgniter a few minutes after install while I was pulling hairs with CakePHP.

But not anymore. I had a pleasant experience experimenting with CakePHP over the last couple of days. It might be that I have I already know Rails which made Cake’s approach fits my brain easily as Cake and Rails have lots of similarities.

Deciding which PHP framework to use on the next project will be a very hard decision to make for me. Cake’s ActiveRecord implementation is better than that of CI. On the other hand, CI gives me full control of almost everything.

July 13, 2007 | Filed Under General, Other Stuffs, Programming 

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4 Responses to “Trying out CakePHP”

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    marvin Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    yeah, CI rocks!

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    Derek Allard Says:
    November 21st, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    Cake’s Active Record is nicer, and that is a noteworthy strength. That said, our (CI’s) active record is evolving with each version, and I hope people will start to take notice ;)

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    Kates Gasis Says:
    November 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    Derek,

    nothing to worry. I like CI way way better than Cake. I love my SQL.

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    j4s0n Says:
    January 18th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    You should try Akelos, haven’t tried using it but watching the screencast makes it interesting to try out.

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